I do something similar with the InDesign files of one or two page in-house marketing flyers and such, where I don't want to have a bazillion versions of the source files on my computer in case someone else needs to output something while I'm away. But I always have the first-pass, second-pass, etc. review PDFs to refer to should it ever be necessary. Anything for an outside client gets a copy saved at each step in case we're told to go back to whatever version or there's an invoice dispute over the amount of changes agreed upon.

Something I really don't understand is why MS Word doesn't have integration with version control software. It seems like such a natural.

Something I really don't understand is why MS Word doesn't have integration with version control software. It seems like such a natural.

Can't it integrate with SharePoint (if you have that)?

I hate the people in the parking lot. Who are all you people! You weren't here yesterday or the day before! There's normally a quarter of the lot available when I get in, but today I had to park in the lower lot that involves steps. I don't like steps.

Can't it integrate with SharePoint (if you have that)?

But that's a whole thing that you have to pay for and administer and all that. I mean like Git or Subversion or Mecurial.

I'm actually freaking out internally at this.

I'm trying not to. Apparently this is the first time there's been any trouble, and the author (bemused but cooperative) sent her the original again, so problem fixed, and she's agreed to keep the original intact now. Hopefully she will let this lesson carry over to other situations.

I wonder what else she's fucking up that I haven't discovered yet.

SERIOUSLY? You want to add someone as an author at this stage of the process?

I just forward those requests to the EIC and let him say no.

Since 9, I've been in a meeting that has required about two minutes of participation from me. Grr.

Ah meetings, so often the bane of productivity.

I'm in meetings from 8-11:30am this morning. And then from 1-4pm. Ha ha haaaa.

She just blithely rewrites the original submission.

Holy crap, version control!

I'm "working from home" today, which actually means I'm camped in the coffee shop around the corner from my house. Because there's no way The Boss (this girl, you know) would allow me to actually WORK in the house.

It's a pretty good coffee shop, actually. They roast their own beans and have free wifi and not-free empanadas, and if I weren't tracking calories like a mofo (my favorite jeans stopped fitting, sigh), I would be all over the empanadas.

Anyway, I'm working from home because I have a major report to finish that I've been stalling on for about a year. Not entirely my fault, the planners kept changing the project, so I saw no reason to spend a lot of time on it. Except now they've gone and finalized their report and had it signed off without talking to me! Apparently they've forgotten they can't forward it up for approval without the environmental review. t face-palm

And because I have so many little projects and so many distractions at work, I got my boss to approve a couple days/week of work-from-home until I get this done. At least I got to sleep in a little bit anyway. But it's going to be hard without access to the network at the office, I'll have to email myself a lot of files.